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Three veteran employees of barge company among five killed in plane crash |
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Written by THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
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VANCOUVER - Three long-time employees of a B.C. barge company were among the five men killed in a plane crash on Vancouver Island on Sunday.
Sea Span International says two of the dead worked for the company for 30 years - 51-year-old Terry Axton of Maple Ridge and 56-year-old Scott Thorne of Vancouver.
The third worker, 62-year-old Grant Wood of Chilliwack, worked for Seaspan for 23 years, while 48-year-old Mark McLean of Comox had just joined the company in June.
They died along with the pilot, 36-year-old Simon Lawrence, when a vintage Grummon Goose they were in slammed into a mountainside shortly after leaving Port Hardy.
Two other men survived, including 54-year-old Bob Pomponio, who used his cell phone to send out text messages that led rescuers to the site of the crash.
The owner of the aircraft, Pacific Coat Airlines, held a memorial service on Tuesday, in which four Grummon Goose seaplane flew over the company's hanger in Port Hardy.
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